New voter priorities around immigration, the cost-of-living crisis and war have hurt climate-focused parties – they just lost a third of their EU seats.
There is no sugarcoating it: losing a third of their seats in the European Parliament elections last week, the Greens tanked.
But there is also a broader trend at play that does not favour Europe’s Greens. A backlash against climate change policies as part of broader culture wars has gained momentum. The enormous youth movement that had buoyed the Greens to win one in five votes in Germany five years ago has been punctured by being part of the governing coalition. “The party can’t please the younger progressive voters who they want to welcome into the fold and, at the same time, appease moderate voters who are wealthier,” said Sudha David-Wilp, a regional director at the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund.
They also made surprising inroads in eastern and southern Europe, including Italy and Spain – places that have traditionally had weak Green parties and, in some cases, never even elected Green deputies to the European Parliament. For the Greens, this kind of successful collaboration could be a model for coalitions in upcoming local and national elections elsewhere in the EU, Eickhout said.
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